James Gunn Needs You to Chill About The Batman Half II’s Delay

On Friday, WB revealed it was shuffling round a few of its motion pictures, primarily The Batman’s sequel. Matt Reeves’ sequel was initially meant to hit on October 2, 2026 is now arriving October 1, 2027. And followers are taking it…not properly.

Since information of The Batman Half II’s delay, social media’s been full of jokes and considerations about what the heck is occurring. Why’s it taking 5 years to do a film, is the entire TBECS enterprise washed—of us simply need some solutions. On Threads, James Gunn defined the movie’s script hadn’t been accomplished, and that director/co-writer Matt Reeves was “dedicated to creating the perfect movie he probably can.” He additional argued it’s “pretty widespread” for a franchise to have 5 or extra years between installments, and cited a number of as proof: Incredibles (14 years), the primary two Alien movies (7 years), Avatar (13 years), and even his personal Guardians of the Galaxy (6 years, albeit not by choice).

It didn’t take lengthy for commenters to hone in on that and argue there’ve been different franchises with much less time between installments: your Marvel motion pictures, your Star Wars (not less than, initially), and so forth. Nonetheless, Gunn’s total level is principally, “yeah, there’s a delay, simply calm down.” It’s simpler requested than finished, particularly given some extra context: Reeves’ first Batman was initially meant to hit in June 2021, and bought pushed again twice as a consequence of COVID. This information additionally comes not lengthy after Sony introduced the directors for Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse, which would’ve been out this yr, and is coming in…TBD. What’s extra, Andy Muschietti, director of the opposite main Batman film, the previously-announced Brave & the Bold, just lately indicated that was placed on the backburner for undisclosed causes. For followers able to gobble up any data on these motion pictures, not figuring out something about Spider-Verse or both Batflick—and never figuring out when they’ll know—pisses them off.

Sadly for them, they’ll simply should deal. The Batman Half II‘s not the one superhero film to get delayed, and a number of other blockbusters have used that lengthy wait between sequels to their benefit. (Living proof: the best way the web lit up for the trailer to the first Superman movie in over a decade.) Corny as it’s to say “let Reeves prepare dinner,” that’s actually all we are able to do. There’ll be different motion pictures out between now and October 2027. And when you want your repair of Robert Pattinson being a weirdo, you’ve bought Mickey 17 hitting in March.

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